We have a lot of engineering documentation stored in a shared repo wiki. The repo itself, though, is private (i.e. part of an organization).
Although there is functionality in the wiki to search for ...

A lot of people are forking my GitHub repo and I would like to be able to see what new features they may be working on without having to manually visit each fork to watch.
How to automatically watch ...

When github displays the content of a directory, it first shows an index of the files in the directory and then, if available, the content of an optional README.md file. This of course means that one ...

I maintain projects with hundreds/thousands of issues, and find it impossible to switch to GitHub, because GitHub's issue tracking does not allow sorting.
As a workaround, I use custom labels to set ...

Is there a "what links here" feature for github?
I know its issue management system has something similar implemented. From another issue, if we link to another issue (on github of course) the latter ...

I'm posting a link to a GitHub repo on Google+ and then it's giving me the GitHub logo. I would like to add logos to my GitHub repositories. Is that possible?
If that's not directly possible I will ...

On GitHub I have multiple email addresses. I would like people to contact me using one address (i.e. show this address on my profile), but actually receive email notifications using another. However I ...

I am using GitHub Pages to host my website. I have a PDF file that I want visitors to be able to open directly in a browser. But when I upload the PDF file to GitHub Pages and link to it, it opens in ...

I used to see beneath my GitHub profile (along with my current location and URL) a list of the languages I program in, based on what data was in my public repositories.
Did this recently disappear? ...

Am I missing something or does Github lack a markdown editor (like the one here that lets me select a text and then click on "B" in the menu above the editor window to make the text bold)? I sometimes ...

I've been looking for a means of removing some status checks created by a CI tool I was evaluating from my pull requests in my GitHub repository, but I haven't had any luck finding a way of achieving ...

I'm trying to search via Google to find a particular Ruby source file responsible for an issue and the OpenSSL function of interest is SSL_get_peer_certificate. If I find the function I'll probably ...

When viewing a PDF file on GitHub, there seems to be no way to have the browser simply display the file as opposed to downloading it.
None of these links work, and these are the only ones I'm able to ...

Is it possible to track and view/analyze traffic to a GitHub repository (possibly with referrers information) for a period longer than 14 days? That seems to be the longest period that I can see via ...

Is there a way to embed a GitHub repo overview (showing its stats, creator and description, etc.) into a webpage?
In Slack, if you paste a GitHub repo URL, it will show the repo description and user ...

I know that I should take ownership of any personal repositories (and gists, etc) they have that might contain company data before removal. However, what's the impact on repositories belonging to an ...

ghtorrent.org is a website that hosts a database of information collected from GitHub. The site has a webapp for querying the database remotely called DBLite.
Whenever I try to create an account on ...

I made 3–4 commits on a single day to my repo using the Mac client for GitHub but the contributions section on my profile page doesn't update itself with changes in varying shades of green.
Why does ...

I'm outsourcing the development of a web app on oDesk, I've designed the front end myself and the back end is being developed using Laravel / MySQL.
I know a bit of PHP, but not enough to a) do the ...

I am trying to add text formatted in a special way to a GitHub repo on README.md file but it is not rendering the text format the way I want it.
I have attached images below.
I want it to look like ...

How can I click-out my way to "Plans and pricing" page? Is there any link leading to this page on my repo's page or anywhere else? I can't see it in standard GitHub footer.
Each time I need to open ...